Sunday, November 1, 2009

Backstab Supreme

My co-op called my department to complain about me.

Apparently I am an arrogant know-it-all who isn't learning a thing from the mentorship. My professor will be coming in to run a mediation meeting to try and clear things up.

I can't BELIEVE she did this! A woman who has her doctorate yet still teaches in a HIGH SCHOOL because she's not good enough for professorship calls me arrogant! How can I be arrogant if I'm sitting in silence in the back of the room!? She's intent on making me into a piece of furniture in her classroom - and upset with me because I won't stand for it!

The point of this experience (something my co-op fails to understand) is not to be a passive observer of her methods in the back of the room, I've had 4 YEARS of observation in the teaching program... observations are done now! No more! Fieldwork has a time for observation but it ends at a point! Fieldwork is supposed to be a third observation, a third teaching, and a third professional (grading, self-evaluation, meetings, conferences... all the behind-the-scenes teacher stuff). She doesn't get any of that because she hasn't even read the packet detailing my Fieldwork assignment... the one I gave her on my very first day to let her know how things were planned to go!

I can't trust her.

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